Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1968-04-20
J. A. Beauchamp


United Brotheren Church To Join
Methodist Church, Evangelical
DALLAS, Texas — Two Protestant 
bodies, The Methodist Church
and The Evangelical United Brethren 
Church (EUB), will Join
forces here April 25 to create a
new denomination — The United
Methodist Church.
The special ceremony consumnating 
the union will be one of
the highlights of the Uniting Conference 
of the two groups to be
held in Dallas Memorial Auditorium 
April 21 to May 4.
This marks the first instance of
organic union of two of the 10
denominations that are participants
ft the Consultation on Church
Union.
The new United Methodist
Church will have more than 11
million members in the United
States and Canada — 10.289,000
from the Methodist Church and
745,000 from the EUB Church. In
addition, there are nearly a million
members overseas.
Methodist and EUBs share a common 
historical and spiritual heritage 
and hold the same basic doctrines, 
with similar ecclesiastical
organizations. During the past several 
years, conversations under the
authorization of their respective
General Conferences have led to
the Plan of Union, which was
adopted November 11, 1966, in Chicago 
at simultaneous General Conferences. 

There will be some 420 EUB delegates 
and about 850 Methodist delegates 
seated at the Uniting Conference, 
chosen to represent annual
(regional) conferences of the two
denominations. Ratification of the
Plan of Union by two-thirds of the
members of these regional conferences 
was completed last June.
Basic business of the Uniting
Conference includes the revision
and perfecting of the organization
and administration section of the
Plan of Union, adopted in principle 
at Chicago. Numerous revisions
are being suggested by the 48member 
Joint Commission on
Union.
In addition, individual church
members and church groups of both
bodies have the right to petition
the conference for changes in the
Discipline or book of law. Almost
2.000 such petitions had been received 
before the readline for submitting 
such petitions.
All of these—the organization
and administration section, revisions 
opposed by the Joint Commission, 
and the 2,900 petitions
bearing on many issues — will be
channeled through an appropriate
one of the 14 legislative committee,
petitions and proposed revisions
will be brought to the floor for action 
in plenary sessions.
While much of the conference
business will, of necessity, deal with
organizational structure of the new
church, it is expected that the delegates 
will also confront and deal
with such world and national issues
as the war in Vietnam, the urban
crisis, racial tensions, church-government 
relations and many other
social concerns.
Other issues confronting the new
church include requests from some
25 overseas units asking for autonomy 
or permission to unite with
other bodies in their country,
resolutions urging a strong ecumenical 
stance and continued support 
of the consultation on Church
Union, the enlarging role of the
laity, and proposals to eliminate
the no-smoking rule imposed upon
its clergy.
Elimination of racial segregation
is an announced objective in the
Plan of Union and the Central
(Negro) Jurisdiction is eliminated.
However, a few remaining Negro
annual conferences still exist in a
dozen southern states. These will
be grouped in appropriate geographical 
jurisdictions.
A target date has been set, for
merger of these Negro conferees
and opevlapping white conferences.
Several groups, including Methodists
for Church Renewal and Black
Methodists for Church Renewal, are

calling for earlier abolition of segregated 
conferences, with 1972 as
a mandatory deadlline.
The plan provides for a Negro
bishop to serve in each of the five
regional jurisdictions but stipulates
that he must administer an integrated 
area. (Such has been the
situation for the past four years
in two jurisdictions of The Methodist 
Church, where a Negro bishop
has served in Iowa and another in
New Jersey.)
Senior EUB Bishop Reuben H.
Mueller of Indianopolis, Ind., has
headed that church's Commission
on Church Union, with the Rev.
Dr. Paul A. Washburn of Dayton,
Ohio, serving as its secretary, Bishop 
Lloyd C. Wicke of New York
attorney, is its secretary. All of
these leaders will have prominent
roles in the order of worship for
the service uniting the two churches 
on Tuesday, April 23 at 8:30 a.m.
Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett
of Sanfrancisco, president of the
Methodist Council of Bishops, will
preside at the service, and the Rev.
Dr. Albert C. Outlet, professor in
Perkins School of Theology, Southern 
Methodist University, Dallas,
will give the address.
Some of the other program highlights 
for the conference follow:
Saturday, April 20 — Registration
and evening reception for conference 
dignitaries.
Sunday, April 21 — Legislative
committees will meet briefly at 7
p. m. to organize and elect officers.
Communion service at 8 p. m. EUB
Bishop Paul Milhouse of Kansas
City, Mo., will be in charge of the
sec
service.
Monday, April 22 — Separate
meetings of the Methodist General
Conference and the EUB General
Conference. A major item of business 
at the EUB General Conference 
will be the election of a new
bishop to replace Bishop Harold
R. Heininger of Minneapolis, Min,
who earlier announced his plans
for retirement. The new bishop will
be assigned later to administer an
area in the North Central Jurisdiction. 

At 7:30 p. m. Bishop Lloyd C.
Wicke of New York will deliver
the Episcopal Address, a sort of
"state of the church" address,
signed b yall the bishops.
Tuesday, April 23 — First official
session of the Uniting Coference
and service of unification at 8:30
a. m.
Wednesday. April 24 — An evening 
program commemorating the
centennial of Christian higher education 
among Negroes.
Friday, April 26 — At 11:30 a.m.
it is expected that an order of
the day will be established for an
address by an outstanding prelate
of the Roman Catholic Church.
Saturday, April 27 — Texas Night
program at the Moody Coliseum,
Southern Methodist University.
Sunday, April 28 — An evening
Festival of Christian Song under
the direction of Professor Carlton
R. Young of Perkins School of
Theology, editor of the Methodist
Hymnal and director of music for
the Uniting Conference. Liturgist
will be the Rev. Dr. Paul Eller of
the Evangelical Theological Seminary, 
Naperville, Ill., and editor of
the EUB Hymnal.
Wednesday. May 1 — Dramatic
presentation on "The Ecumenical
Nature of the Church," sponsored
by boards and agencies of the
uniting denominations.
Bishops will take turns presiding
at plenary sessions of the conference, 
with each morning opening
wit ha worship service. Bishop
James S. Thomas of Des Moines,
Ia., has charge of planning and
directing these services.
Each week-day afternoon at 4
o'clock there will be a service of
worship and preaching in the First
Methodist Church in downtown
Dallas. The Rev. Dr. Irving L.,
Smith of Stillwater, Okla., is in
general cnarge of arrangements
for these services.
A major item on the agenda of
the conference will be the adoption
of a quadrennial program for 196872. 
Bishop James K. Mathews of
Boston is chairman of the Coordinating 
council, which is bringing
forward a proposed, program on
behalf of the bishops and various
agencies of the church.
Adoption of a budget for the ongoing 
work of the denomination
and any special appeals authorized
by the conference will also be under 
consideration.
Considerable interest centers
around the proposed Program Council, 
which would combine with the
present EUB Program Council concept 
a cluster of Methodist agencies, 
including the Coordinating
Council, the Commission on Promotion 
and cultivation, the Television. 
Radio and Film Commission, 
Interboard Commission on the
Local Church and the Research
Department of the Council on
World Service and Finance.
There would be created in each
local church a new mandatory
"Council of Minitsrie" to consider,
develop and correlate proposals for
the church's strategy for mission."
A report on the ministry will
bring up the question of whether
there should be one order of the
clergy or two and the possibility
of a new type of lay deacon relationship. 
There are strong differences 
of opinion as to whether or
not the no-smoking rule for ministers 
should be changed.
Anticipating that it will not be
possible to complete all necessary
reorganization during the Uniting
Conference, the Joint Commission
on Union is proposing the creation
of four special commissions to
spend tile next four years working
on issues. These commissions would
be assigned to update the church's
creedal statement, revise its statement 
of social principles, deal with
general church organization, and
continue to study the structure or
Methodism overseas.
General boards and agencies of
The Methodist Church are located
in New York. Nashville, Washington. 
D. C. and Evanston. Ill. The
headquarters of the EUB Church
is in Dayton, Ohio. The plan calls
for continuing all of these centers, 
but cognate unite of the two
denominations will be merged and
there will he some shifting of board
offices and staff personnel from
city to city.
The Rev. Dr. J. Otis Young, Parks
Ridge, Ill., an associate publisher
of The Methodist publishing House,
is chairman of the Commission on
Entertainment and program, which
has charge of all arrangements for
the conference.
Dr. J. Wesley Hole of Los Angeles 
has been secretary of the
Methodist General Conference and
the Rev. Dr Emerson D. Bragg.
Dayton. Ohio, secretary of the
EUB General Conference.

Dr. Ann R. Gayles
Accepts Chairmanship
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—(FAMU)—
Dr. Anne R. Gayles, chairman, Department 
of Secondary Education,
Florida A.&M. University, has recently 
been appointed 1968-69 State
Membership Chairman for the National 
Society of College Teachers
of Education. In this role she will
conduct a recruitment program
among faculties of the colleges and
universities of Florida.
During the latter part of February, 
Dr. Gayles served on a panel
of teacher education evaluators for
the National Council for Accreditation 
of Teacher Education. In
this connection she had an opportunity 
to study, analyze and
appraise the various components of
a functional teacher education program. 

The appraisal was done upon the
basis of the criteria developed by
the National Council of Accreditation 
for Teacher Education. This
probing professional experience will
be of great value to Dr. Gayles as
she works with various aspects of
the Teacher Education program at
FAMU.

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Summer In India,
Cool It With Ooty
Four top jazz performers, representing 
four popular but divergent
jazz styles, will be spotlighted on
the season's final "Bell Telephone
Hour" Friday, April 26 in "Jazz:
The Intimate Art" in color on the
NBC Television Network (10-11 p.
m. NYT).
Featured on the program will be

ouise Armstrong, trumpet; Dave
Brubeck, piano; Dizzy Gillespie,
trumpet, and Charles Lloyd, saxophone-flute. 

Jazz, perhaps more than any
other musical form, is a direct expression 
of the personality of the
performer Seeing them at work in
rehearsals, at home and perform
ing 
for audiences, "Jazz: The Intimate 
Art" will explore the personalities 
of these four artists, and
in so doing, show how different
personality characteristics produce
different kinds of Jazz. The program 
will sample the jazz spectrum
from the New Orleans style of Louis 
Armstrong to the avant-garde
technique of Charles Lloyd.
Louis Armstrong, whose exuberant, 
outgoing sounds ech those of
his native city, will be seen at a
recording session in Manhattan, at
a performance In Pittsburgh and
as he reminisces about his early
days in New Orleans.
In a sequence filmed at the Jazz

Workshop in San Francisco the
freewheeling mercurial personality
of Dizzy Gillespie Ii revealed. As
one of the founders of "bop," he
helped to introduce not only a new
approach to Jan but also the "bip"
vocabulary and "boy" way of dressing. 
"Bop" is a style perhaps Bert
embodied in Gillespie himself. A
composer as well as bandleader and
performer, Gillespie will be heard
playing "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" 
and "Con Alma."
The innovative pianist-conductorcomposer 
Dave Brubeck will be
shown in two significant episodes:
one is the final concert of the
Brubeck Quartet last December in
Pittsburgh, the other a performance 
of his new Jazz oratorio, "The
Light in the Winderness," at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
One of the jazz world's newest
stars, 30-year-old Charles. Lloyd
puts into his music all of the personal 
rapport he feels with today's 
young generation. At Reed
College in Portland, Ore., the camera 
locks on as, with words and
music, Lloyd communicates with
his youthful following. The Lloyd
Quartet will be heard in an excerpt 
from one of his own compositions, 
"Forest Flower."
"Jazz: The Intimate Art" was
produced by Robert Drew Associates. 


American Committee On Africa
Calls For Olympic Boycott
The
American Committee on Africa issued 
a statement Friday signed by
more than 60 athletes calling for
a United States boycott of the
1968 Olympic Games unless South
Africa is prevented from partici
pating. 

Included among the signers were
Negro and white athletes and amateur 
and professionals. Five appeared 
at a news conference and
made statements amplifying their
stand.
* * *

* * *
The statement by the committee's 
Executive director, George M.
Houser, called on the Executive
Committee of the International
Olympic Committee to convene the
entire IOC to debate whether South
Africa should be permitted to take
part In the games this summer in
Mexico City because of discriminatory 
practices in selection of its
team.
Dotson said he also supported
the boycott of the U. S. Olympic
team by some U. S. Negro athletes.
"I think 1968 should see Negro
athletes, boycott the Olympics regardless 
of South Africa," he said.
Bouton, saying It was "presumptuous" 
to ask others not to take
part in the games, said it was his
intention "to have the United
States boycott the Olympics and
force the IOC to reconvene and
ban South Africa."